Par­ents of stu­dents at­tend­ing the Ari­ma North Sec­ondary School say they are very dis­turbed af­ter a video went vi­ral show­ing a fe­male teacher and a fe­male stu­dent fight­ing.

Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez is now warn­ing T&T against any plans of ag­gres­sion against the “peo­ple of Simón Bolí­var,” say­ing, “Don’t even think about it.”

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has is­sued three new Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2025, tar­get­ing high-rank­ing mem­bers of or­gan­ised crime groups in T&T.

Se­nior pub­lic ser­vice of­fi­cials re­main tight-lipped on re­ports that Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram is un­der pres­sure to re­sign. But a se­nior pub­lic health spe­cial­ist has con­demned the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the sit­u­a­tion as “dis­grace­ful”, while Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne has warned the ad­min­is­tra­tion to keep its hands off the CMO.

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Hay­den Forde says he is yet to re­ceive any in­struc­tions from the Gov­ern­ment through any min­istry to be­gin pro­cess­ing Venezue­lan in­mates to fa­cil­i­tate their de­por­ta­tion from T&T.

Dr Sih­lè Le­tren has an­nounced her res­ig­na­tion as Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go, step­ping down ahead of the Miss Uni­verse 2025 com­pe­ti­tion.

Gov­ern­ment will recog­nise the top 200 high-per­form­ing stu­dents and the top 25 pri­ma­ry schools from the 2025 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) Ex­am.

Mem­bers of the me­dia have crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ab­sence from post-Cab­i­net brief­in­gs, call­ing for more di­rect en­gage­ment.

As an­oth­er day passed with­out any con­tact from miss­ing Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Im­raz “Clubs” Ali, fam­i­ly and friends con­tin­ued to hold out hope that he is alive.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi, SC, is call­ing on At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, SC, to con­tin­ue ef­forts to en­force a US$150 mil­lion-plus judg­ment against busi­ness­man Steve Fer­gu­son, for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Bri­an Kuei Tung, and a US busi­ness­man, fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion linked to the con­struc­tion of Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a 31-year-old busi­ness­woman who was gunned down at her Chase Vil­lage es­tab­lish­ment yes­ter­day.

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore says she is “ex­treme­ly wor­ried” about the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) de­ci­sion to cut spon­sor­ship of three steel­bands and its part­ner­ship with Pan Trin­ba­go, warn­ing the move sends a trou­bling sig­nal to oth­er state-owned com­pa­nies.